Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose

How to Supercharge Your Career with Purpose and Impact At a time when employee engagement has never been lower, the Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose: Designing a Meaningful and Prosperous Career helps employees bring their full selves to work by helping them discover and use their personal Purpose to fuel their careers. This can lead to higher levels of physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as huge benefits to organizations in the form of higher levels of engagement, innovation, recruitment, and retention. This book explores the ground-breaking GPS to Purpose framework for finding Personal Purpose, helping readers pinpoint their Gifts, Passions, and how they can be of Service to others, and in the process drive business growth through solving social and environmental problems. With ideas applied at Fortune 500 companies like Adidas, PepsiCo, Microsoft, and others, this book discusses topics including: Explaining what Personal Purpose is in a clear and accessible way Unpacking the many mental, physical, and financial benefits of finding Purpose How to unleash your inner ‘Intrapreneur’ at work How to write an inspiring Living Vision for your life—and your work The Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all employees seeking to design a career that is both meaningful and successful—and help them drive growth in an entrepreneurial way through solving social and environmental problems.

Introduction Part I: Our Purpose Journey (Inspiration) 1 Chapter 1: The Call to Adventure 3 Chapter 2: Finding Our Purpose 13 Chapter 3: Living Our Purpose 29 Chapter 4: The World Shuts Down 43 Part II: What Is Purpose? 55 Chapter 5: The Definition of Individual Purpose 57 Chapter 6: The Benefits of Having a Personal Purpose 63 Chapter 7: The Nine Truths of Purpose 83 Part III: Your GPS to Purpose 113 Chapter 8: What Is GPS to Purpose? 115 Chapter 9: Your Living Vision 121 Chapter 10: Gifts 139 Chapter 11: Passions 149 Chapter 12: Service 161 Chapter 13: Putting It All Together: Your Personal Purpose Statement 169 In Closing 181 References 185 About the Authors 189 Thanks and Acknowledgments 193 Index 201